Timed Hands

2013. Another Year. I’ve made one New Year’s resolution every year for a decade or three: not to make a New Year’s resolution. And I’ve managed to keep it so far, intend to go on making it: it’s one I can’t break easily.  Now, take a look at an analog clock, and see what kind of faces it can make …

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TIMED HANDS                                                            
                                                                                                         

hours walk
circling wide
to measure
hands over faces
ticking frowns
round and round

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this clock
tocks a revolving                          
laugh between
semaphore arms

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an early version published in Tidepool
photos by Robert Weston

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A Summer Father … terse, imagistic lines; … It’s not nostalgia that we experience but quiet, poignant grief. Richard Stevenson